A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.